The heart is the mother of abominations. It loves what it should hate and hates what it should love.
— Thomas Boston (1676-1732)
Daily Christian quotes to direct, inspire, encourage, and help ordinary Christians in the rough and tumble of their daily lives!
The heart is the mother of abominations. It loves what it should hate and hates what it should love.
— Thomas Boston (1676-1732)
I have found much sweetness in communion with God, especially at the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, in prayer and meditation, hearing the word faithfully and seriously preached, and in preaching it myself. When the candle of the Lord shines on my tabernacle, then was it a sweet exercise to my soul.
— Thomas Boston (1676-1732)
I found it was no easy thing to part with sin; and the impression on my spirit was that of my utter inability to put away sin. And I think I never had a more solid sense of the absolute need of Christ for sanctification. I saw it was as easy for a rock to raise itself, as for me to raise my heart from sin to holiness.
— Thomas Boston (1676-1732)
Sin has turned the world from a paradise into a thicket, there is no getting through without being scratched.
— Thomas Boston (1676–1732)
No sin of yours will ruin you, if you believe; and nothing will save you, if you do not.
— Thomas Boston (1676-1732)